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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Roghun in Tajikistan


Earthquake location 38.8707S, 69.7667WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Roghun in Tajikistan. Id of earthquake: us20002yzb. Event ids that are associated: us20002yzb. Exact location, longitude 69.7667° East, latitude 38.8707° North, depth = 12.4 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.4 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:21:29 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 19:21:29 / July 21, 2015 @ 7:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Dushanbe (c. 679 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vahdat (c. 45 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Boshkengash (c. 23 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Norak (c. 18 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yovon (c. 17 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mŭ’minobod (c. 12 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khodzha-Maston, Boshkengash, Danghara. Country/countries that might be effected, Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km NW of Roghun, Tajikistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.7667° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8707° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NW of Roghun, Tajikistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-21 19:21:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-21 20:47:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 354 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.447 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002yzb Id of event.
Event Code 20002yzb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yzb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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